1570 - 1596 (26 years)
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Date |
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| 1 | 1577 | - 1577: Alliance between England and Netherlands; Francis Drake sails around the world (to 1580)
- 1577: Sir Francis Drake sets sail from England. He circumnavigates the globe
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| 2 | 1583 | - 1583: Cesalpino, in 'De Plantis', classified plants with seeds according to the number, position, and shape of the parts of their fruit.
- 1583: Galileo Galilei discovered by experiment that the oscillations of a swinging pendulum took the same amount of time regardless of their amplitude.
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| 3 | 1584 | - 1584: William of Orange is murdered and England sends aid to the Netherlands; 1586 Expedition of Sir Francis Drake to the West Indies; Conspiracy against Elizabeth I involving Mary Queen of Scots
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| 4 | 1587 | - 1587: Sprouts were believed to have been cultivated in Italy in Roman times, and possibly as early as the 1200s in Belgium but the modern Brussels sprout that we are familiar with was first cultivated in large quantities in Belgium (hence the name)
- 1587: Execution of Mary Queen of Scots; England at war with Spain; Drake destroys Spanish fleet at Cadiz
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| 5 | 1588 | - 1588: The Spanish Armada is defeated by the English fleet under Lord Howard of Effingham, Sir Francis Drake, and Sir John Hawkins: war between Spain and England continues until 1603
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| 6 | 1590 | - 1590: Zacharias and Hans Janssen combined double convex lenses in a tube, producing the first telescope.
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| 7 | 1596 | - 1596: The work of Dutch cartographer Abraham Ortelius suggests the possibility of continental drift, which will be described more forcefully by Alfred Wegener centuries later.
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